Archive for Mechanical Engineering

Students from Dwight Look College of Engineering at Texas A&M University were allotted 60 seconds to pitch their research to a panel of judges during the Pitch Your Research competition earlier this month.
The competition, which included participants from the Departments of Materials Science …

Jen Copestake, a reporter from BBC’s technology television program “Click,” recently visited Texas A&M University's mechanical engineering department to showcase the result of a 10-year research project. Carlos Sanchez, a Ph.D. student in the department was interviewed, and the question of wheth…

Trevor Terrill, a doctoral student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University, was recently awarded a 2015 Outstanding IAC Student Award by the National Industrial Assessment Centers. The program, which receives its funding through the United States Department of Energy,…

James Eggebrecht, assistant director of Texas A&M University’s Industrial Assessment Center (IAC) and a lecturer in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, was recently awarded the Outstanding Alumni award by the U.S. Department of Energy Industrial Assessment Centers.
The Industrial Assessme…

Each year engineering students at Texas A&M University participate in a senior project that will tie together and challenge all the skills they have achieved while pursuing their degrees. These projects are designed to showcase not only the student’s capabilities but also each department’s world…

Ali Beheshti, Tanil Ozkan and Stephen Keen, tribologists from the Microtribodynamics Group led by Dr. Andreas A. Polycarpou, represented Texas A&M University’s Department of Mechanical Engineering at the student STEM camp held in May. The event was hosted by The Society of Tribologist and Lubr…

Nineteen students from the Sketch Recognition Lab, directed by CSE Associate Professor Dr. Tracy Anne Hammond, in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering received ten awards for their research comprised of a myriad of projects from digitizing sketch-based neuropsychology tests to putting …

Daniel Navid Mohsenizadeh, a post doctoral student from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University, was awarded the First Place Post-Doctoral Award at the Twelfth Annual Conference of the MidSouth Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Society.
Mohsenizadeh,…

The Department of Mechanical Engineering was recently visited by Aarti Shahani, a reporter from NPR’s All Tech Considered program, who interviewed Dr. Hong Liang to discover more about her robotic research involving cockroaches. While most people are frightened at the thought of a room full of craw…

The Dwight Look College of Engineering at Texas A&M University hosted 143 prospective students on campus during two camps held in July.
Seventy-five rising juniors and seniors participated in the Women Explore Engineering (WEE) camp and an additional 68 students from 12 Texas high schools parti…

Bryan, John and Kay McDaniel have endowed a scholarship in mechanical engineering at Texas A&M University.
The McDaniel children have established theWilliam Bryan McDaniel, Jr. ’47 and Frances Thomas McDaniel Memorial Scholarship in honor of their parents.
“We wish to thank the McDaniels for …